The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-11-24

men, who for wears have handled frn1
fhre" TO four ou>and holi~oS hay
shown you, say, that Where twenty euf
tered before, nineteen are protected uuda
prohibition that don't prohibit Wha
would we have with prohibition that die
prohibit, Let me go one step further
When you talk first about q house that
man lives in you get right at him. I have
finished with that
Ihe next step is to get our employers
and ask their tt stimony | went to Mr.
Boyd, of Van Winkle 4 Co. and he said
''Where formerly had ten or fifteen gar
nlshments at a time TO answer, | now have
none.
Inc garnlshment, next to the distress
warrant, IS the most iniquitous form OF
debt collection. 1t means that the law
| lays It's hand Ou a man 5 wages and holds
them III Its z asp, though his little chill
dren may Chamber about his knees and
cry for bread. Now, whore there were
twenty necessary then, there is one now
Mr.. Grady continued in this line for
! some and then said:
| On Decatur street there were twenty
three bar-rooms where there are now four
Wlne-rooms in what you might call the last
extremities. All except one are occupied
by grocers, dry goods stores, boot and
shoe shops, or by some sort Of business
that builds up man ID place Of a traffic
that tears him down. Where is the par
stiysls of business? Four saloons and
nineteen stores doing business in place Of
tWenty-three bar-rooms.
| have told you i'll getting evidence Of
improvement or deterioration in city
that you must go to the working classes.
! Especially Is this true of Atlanta because
this is the third city in the United States
IN the proportion OF workers to population
Lawrence, Mass, leads with 81 per cent
OF her population wage earners, Lowell
follows with 10 per cent and Atlanta and
Fall River tie for third place with A. per
cent.
Now here is class Of people represent
lnS III the workers of our number forty.
seven per cent of the entire population
Add the women and children who do not
Wolk, and we see this class represents
sixty SIX or seventy per cent Of our popu-
iatlon. II | have shown that this class is
benefited in an unspeakable manner by
the untrled experiment Of prohibition is It
not our duty to continue this experiment
that the greatest good may come To the
greatest mber.
There is just one thing further What
harm has 1t done. If it has done harm.
let us see what. They said we were going
in and out, and the real estate men have
the renting of nine out of ten houses that
are rented. They testify without a break
absolutely without a break, that they have
fewer houses on their lists than they have
ever had since they have been in business
Two of them have advertised in the last
few days for one hundred houses. and to-
day Mr.. Tally told me that he actually
left his office because he was bored by
people who wanted to get somewhere TO
live III this town.
Mr.. Scott told me that he could put
tenants in FIVE hundred houses in thirty
days from to morrow.
In the last two years there have been
6s. citizen who have become nome OWL
ers, against l53 in the two years previous
Owing no man and owning no man as
master, wearing the collar of no faction
free-born American citizens, not quibbling
about personal liberty, but standing with
wife and little ones, honest and indepen
dent, above penury and degradation.
Applause.
Mr.. Grady made every point tell, and
then paid 10 the women who are engaged
III the temperance work the following eX-
quisitely beautiful compliments
Il doubt if our Women-GOd bless them
al DO their best work in the public
turmoil of this campaign. | wish it was
so We could take hold of it with such man
Hness that every woman could 60 back
home and rely on her prayers and our et-
forts to carry it through. Nomau's best
work is gentlenesS. She should come rs
the dew comes, not in the garish sunshine
or the rushing storm, but when the earth
is raped in nights sober hush. falling
like soft distillation of the star above
the sleeping flowers. Tremendous ap-
plause. Better work there but | honor
her when she comes to the front in an
emergency like this. bringing her Scared
heart and tender nature and shining eyes
to our aid.
In concluding his speech, Mr.. Grady
said:
II assume to keep no mans conscience;
| assume to Judge for no man; I do not
assume that am better than any man,
but that | am weaker, but | say this to
you: | have boy as dear to me as the
ruddy drops that gather about this heart
| find my hopes already centering in his
little body and | look to him tonight to
take to himself the work that, strive as
may, must fall unfinished at last from my
hands. Now, know they say it is proper
to edlcate a boy at home: that if he is
taught right at home he will not go wrong.
That is a lie to begin with, but that don't
matter. | have seen sons Of some as good
people as ever lived turn out badly. ac-
cept my responsibility as a father. That
boy may fall from the right path as things
now exist. If he does, shall bear that
sorrow with such resignation as / may.
but | tell you, if | We're to vote to recall
bar-rooms to this city, when | know that
it has prospered in their absence, and that
boy should fall through their agency, !
tell you-and this conviction has come to
me in the still watches Of the night !
could not, wearing the crowning sorrow
of her whose heart he had broken could
not, if | had voted to recall these bar
rooms, find answer for my conscience or
support for my remorse. Applause. |
don't know how any other father feels,
but that is the way | feel, if God permits
me to utter the truth.
''The best reforms Of this earth come
through waste and storm and doubt and
suspicion; the sun itself when it rises on
each day wastes the radiance of the moon
and bots the starlight from the skies, but
only to unlock the earth from the clasp
of night and plant the stars anew in the
opening flowers Behind that sun as be
hind this movement we may be sure there
stands the Lord God Almighty, master
hand the spheres are rolled to their orbits,
and whose voice has been the harmony Of
this world since the morning stars sang
together. Tremendous, loud and long
continued applause.